Charlotte Edwards has promised to make England’s players “more accountable for their fitness” as she seeks to improve the team’s fortunes after her appointment as women’s head coach. The 45-year-old insisted that despite England women’s recent troubles against Australia they were capable of winning this year’s 50-over World Cup in India, saying she was “really … Read more
Little Island, the floating park atop a collection of funnel-like columns in the Hudson River, will welcome a flurry of programming to its theaters with no walls this summer, the second season of programming funded by Barry Diller and his family foundation. Filling its three open-air performance spaces — the Amph, the Glade and the … Read more
Arsenal are exploring a summer move for Athletic Bilbao’s Nico Williams. Andrea Berta has held talks with the Spain forward’s representatives in one of his first acts as the club’s sporting director. It is understood Berta, who was confirmed in his post last Sunday and attended Tuesday’s 2-1 win over Fulham, has met the 22-year-old’s … Read more
MAGIC OF THE (GERMAN) CUP This time last year, Bayer Leverkusen’s 39-match unbeaten streak across all competitions and almost supernatural propensity for pulling late, late equalising and winning goals out of das collective hinterteil was the talk of Europe. With the end of the season hoving into view, Football Daily certainly wasn’t alone in wondering … Read more
Michael Malone called him Superman. At the moment, Nikola Jokić is just super tired. The Denver Nuggets star mustered a career-best 61-point performance in which he played nearly 53 minutes. He didn’t leave the court after halftime of a 140-139 double-overtime loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday night. His scoring spree was the most … Read more
The Los Angeles Dodgers moved to 7-0 on Tuesday night, equalling the 1933 New York Yankees for the best start to a season by a defending champion, behind a strong start from Dustin May, who was making history of his own. The pitcher spent all of last season rehabbing from a torn flexor tendon in … Read more
The sports minister, Stephanie Peacock, has asked the government body responsible for elite funding, UK Sport, to investigate allegations of unlawful tender made against the British Basketball Federation. On Wednesday, the BBF signed a 15-year agreement with an American consortium to operate a new men’s professional league from 2026. The existing nine Super League Basketball … Read more
The Manchester United women’s team head coach Marc Skinner has signed a new contract until June 2027, with the option of an extra year. Skinner’s previous contract had been set to expire at the end of this season. He is already the longest-serving current manager at a WSL club, having been appointed in the summer … Read more
The Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti, who is on trial for allegedly defrauding Spain’s tax office of more than €1m in undeclared earnings from image rights, has told a court he believed his financial affairs were in order and “never thought a fraud could have been committed”. Prosecutors allege the 65-year-old former Chelsea and Everton … Read more
Those of us lucky enough to watch county cricket in the 1980s, with a packet of Salt’n’Shake in one hand and an autograph book in the other, could tick off Viv Richards at Somerset, Malcolm Marshall at Hampshire, Michael Holding at Derbyshire (imagine!) and Courtney Walsh at Gloucestershire in only a couple of games. And … Read more